Using IFTTT to Help you Remember Important Text Messages

Here’s a tip that will make you seem like a pro at remembering to follow up on text messages—including Apple’s iMessage—when you say you will. I know I’m not alone in this, since we all live in such a busy world. I’m constantly prioritizing and trying to stay on top of everything. Still, there are often text messages that just can’t be answered right away. The problem is that if I don’t respond right away, I’m liable to forget. That’s why I came up with this simple hack in If This Then That (IFTTT) to help me remember important text messages.

How IFTTT Can Help You Remember Important Text Messages and iMessages

The video below does a much better job of explaining this hack than I ever could in words, but let’s talk about what you need to make this work. Here are the things you need to make sure of before you get started. Then you won’t have any problems using this method to remember important text messages.

In Settings, make sure IFTTT has permission to access your reminders. (If you’ve never created an action using iOS Reminders before, the permission option won’t be in Settings. Just launch the IFTTT app after you create your applet, and it will ask for the appropriate permissions.)

That’s it, so without further ado, watch the video below to see how IFTTT can help you remember important messages.

Unlike Twitter, IFTTT is bad when you are dealing with multiple accounts. If you use IFTTT for business purposes and have a business account, you have to set this up under your business account unless you eventually log out and log in with your personal account.

Yes, I am one of those people who would like to keep business and personal separate. It is frustrating when someone like IFTTT doesn’t understand this!